1. Custom Steel Bending

Custom steel bending is the manufacturing process of bending metal bars or beams of varying thickness to a custom spec. A custom bend can project a subtle or small rise, or a more massive and deep rise. The type of bend depends on factors like material strength, shape, and end purpose.

Custom steel bending helps create the appropriate supports for various outdoor structures like pergolas, gazebos, picnic and pavilion covers, and other outdoor architectural creations. Steel beams and bars are strong enough to bear the weight of heavier structures like these, but this type of material has other benefits as well.

The high endurance of structural steel makes your creations especially resistant to storms, strong winds, and earthquakes. Steel's ability to withstand these forces turns them into safer places for people to seek shelter.

Structural steel possesses many sustainable qualities for customers concerned about the effects of manufacturing on the environment:

• Steel's initial production carbon footprint is negligible when you consider its recyclability. Once steel is produced, it can be reused many times without loss of quality.
• Better water resource management means steel production ultimately uses less water.

These and other custom steel bending benefits for architectural structures means city parks, schools, and other clients have more building options.

2. Steel Tubing

Steel tubing refers to hollow metal materials in various shapes. Round, square, and triangular tubing with architectural applications lets you tap into a new market of varying scales of agricultural growers and gentleman farmers.

The unique nature of greenhouses makes steel tubing a popular choice for forming the framework of these delicate buildings. Greenhouses can be small or very large, but all need a strong yet lightweight system of risers and lateral supports.

Steel tubing gives each greenhouse the spacious height needed for air circulation and support for glazing materials to allow light. Most importantly, steel tubing resists damage from various elements present inside a greenhouse interior. Moisture and heat can damage support materials unable to withstand corrosion, dry rot, mildew, or UV rays.

3. Exposed Steel

Structures that employ steel for strength do not have to appear boring, utilitarian, or industrial. Some clients want structural steel for a project, but lack the understanding necessary to create something beautiful as well as functional. Architecturally exposed structural steel, or AESS, is one way to provide the right amount of support but in a creative way.

The purpose of AESS is to be visually impactful. Sweeping steel forms can bend and curve to lend grace to structures such as canopies and walkways. Or, steel remains in a straight vertical form to cast a strict, dominant feel to a building. In both instances, the steel used for AESS creations must be free of blemishes. AESS is open to several finish options as well. Your clients can request colors and matte or glossy finishes.

When you want to offer more creativity and choices to new and existing architectural clients, consider metal fabrication like bent structural steel, steel tubing, and AESS. Call Schorr Metals Inc for these and many other metal products and services your architectural customers are looking for.